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<h1><em>Not</em> the Gnu General Public License</h1>

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Many versions of Ghostscript, including all versions created before June
1993, are customarily distributed with a license called the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" class="offsite">GNU
General Public
License</a> (GPL); in these versions, a file named <b><tt>COPYING</tt></b>
contains a copy of the license.  This copy of Ghostscript is governed not
by the GNU license, but by a substantially different license in a similar
spirit, the <a href="Public.htm">Aladdin Free Public License</a>.

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<small>Copyright &copy; 1996, 1997, 1998 Aladdin Enterprises.
All rights reserved.</small>

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This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or
implied.

This software is distributed under license and may not be copied,
modified or distributed except as expressly authorized under the terms
of the license contained in the file LICENSE in this distribution.

For more information about licensing, please refer to
http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on
commercial licensing, go to http://www.artifex.com/licensing/ or
contact Artifex Software, Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road #110,
San Rafael, CA  94903, U.S.A., +1(415)492-9861.

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<small>Ghostscript version 8.53, 20 October 2005

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